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Maurício de Orange-Nassau (Dillenburg, 14 de novembro de 1567 – Haia, 23 de abril de 1625) foi um militar holandês e destacado líder político na Guerra dos Oitenta Anos. Era filho de Guilherme, o Taciturno. Tornou-se príncipe de Orange em 1618, sucedendo ao seu irmão Felipe Guilherme em 1618. [1]
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Maurício Guilherme Pieter Hendrik van Vollenhoven de Orange-Nassau (17 de abril de 1968, Utrecht) é o filho mais velho da princesa Margarida dos Países Baixos e de Pieter van Vollenhoven. Antes da sucessão de seu primo Guilherme Alexandre como rei, ele era um membro da ; Casa de Orange-Nassau e décimo na linha de sucessão ao ...
- Anna, Lucas, Felicia
- Marilene van den Broek
- Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik
- Life
- Military Career
- Maurice and Oldenbarnevelt
- Thirty Years' and Eighty Years' War
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Maurice was the son of William the Silent and Anna of Saxony and was born at the castle of Dillenburg. He was named after his maternal grandfather, the Elector Maurice of Saxony, who was also a noted general. Maurice never married but was the father of illegitimate children by Margaretha van Mechelen (including Willem of Nassau, Lord of the Lek, an...
Maurice organized the rebellion against Spain into a coherent, successful revolt. He reorganized the Dutch States Army together with Willem Lodewijk, studied military history, strategy and tactics, mathematics and astronomy, and proved himself to be among the best strategists of his age. The Eighty Years' War was a challenge to his style, so he cou...
Maurice started out as the protégé of Landsadvocaat (Land's Advocate, i.e. secretary to the nobility of Holland and legal counsel to the States of Holland, but functioning as de facto chief minister of Holland and the States-General) Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, but gradually tensions rose between these two men. Against Maurice's advice, and despite h...
Historian Jonathan Israel places upon Maurice part of the responsibility for the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in which Germany was devastated and a large part of its population killed. As noted by Israel, German Protestants were not eager for an all-out confrontation with the Catholics. Maurice significantly helped precipitate such a confronta...
The island nation of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean, was named after him. The island was named in the prince's honour by Wybrant Warwijck in 1598 and Dutch emigrants first settled it in May...In 1611, the Dutch variously named what is now known as the Hudson Riverthe Mauritius River or the Mauritz River, in honour of the prince. It was also similarly referred to as the Nassau River.Maurice, besides being stadtholder of several provinces and Captain-General, both non-hereditary and appointive titles, was the hereditary sovereign of the principality of Orange in what is today Provencein France. He also was the lord of many other estates, which formed his wealth: 1. Marquis of Veere and Vlissingen 2. Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, ...
Maurice never married but was the father of several illegitimate children: by Margaretha van Mechelen: 1. Willem of Nassau, Lord of the Lek(1601–1627) 2. Louis of Nassau, Lord of De Lek and Beverweerd(Lodewijk) (1604–1665) 3. Maurice (Maurits) (1604–1617) by Cornelia Jacobsdochter: 1. Anna (?–1673) by Ursula de Rijck: 1. Elisabeth (1611–1679) 2. Ka...
Parker, Geoffrey (2007). "The Limits to Revolutions in Military Affairs: Maurice of Nassau, the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), and the Legacy". Journal of Military History. 71 (2): 331–372. doi:10.13...Herbert H., Rowen (1988). The Princes of Orange: the Stadholders in the Dutch Republic. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521345251.Maurício de Orange-Nassau ( Dillenburg, 14 de novembro de 1567 – Haia, 23 de abril de 1625) foi um militar holandês e destacado líder político na guerra dos oitenta anos. Era filho de Guilherme, o Taciturno. Tornou-se príncipe de Orange em 1618, sucedendo ao seu irmão Felipe Guilherme em 1618.
Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven. Prince Maurits Willem Pieter Hendrik of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (born 17 April 1968) is a member of the Dutch royal family as the eldest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven .
